True or False: A specialty search engine searches only websites that require a subscription.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Not sure
• D. Sometimes

Answer: (B)

Specialty search engines narrow their results to a specific domain or type of resource, such as medical literature or legal documents, rather than searching the entire web. The claim that they search only subscription-required websites isn’t accurate because many of these tools index open-access resources, abstracts, or content from free databases, and the search interface itself is usually accessible without a subscription. For example, PubMed lets you search biomedical literature for free, though full-text access may require a subscription or library access; other specialized engines focus on open-access journals. So, this statement is false because a specialty search engine isn’t defined by restricting itself to paid sites.